Clarksburg Post Announces Early Friday Clothing Sale
Clarksburg residents are alerted to a massive sale promising thousands of dollars in brand new clothing from one of the city's newest department stores. 25 000 circulars will be distributed Monday through Thursday within a 35 mile radius, urging shoppers to wait for Friday July 16 at 9 a m to buy. The notice emphasizes an unexpected sacrifice of the entire stock and advises watching newspapers for further developments.
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Clarksburg
Real American Feeling Against War Reflected in Press
The American public, anxious to avoid European conflict, preferred peace and quiet at home. Many citizens doubted the push to join belligerent actions, urging Washington officials to focus on domestic rights while avoiding entanglement in international law disputes.
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United States
American Review of Reviews
Germany
Oine
Washington
Young
Bicolleze
Always Tardy Bridegroom Loses Wedding Day
CORNING July 10 The tardiness of William Godden cost him his bride Miss Grayce E B Sands. He failed to arrive for the 8 am wedding as planned to obtain a license and then again 8:45 am due to a claimed railroad delay. The ceremony was called off and the couple did not wed. Godden’s home is in Hornell and Miss Sands remains a schoolteacher.
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Corning
William Godden
Grayce EB. Sands
Mr. Godden
Hornell
Godden
Asong
Miss Sands
German battleship Pommern sunk by British sub
London July 10 naval correspondent of the Evening Star reports the German battleship Pommern, a Deutschland type vessel of 19,200 tons with 729 crew, sunk in the Baltic by a British submarine on July 2. Built in 1905, she carried four 11 inch guns, fourteen 6.7 inch guns, twenty four pounders and six torpedo tubes at an estimated cost of 6 million dollars.
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Tag
Associated Press
London
Stan_ Hard
Baltic
Home Grown Green Corn Arrives in Market
Home grown green corn appears in markets with plenty of juicy sugar corn and other vegetables. The crop signaled as abundant, offering a fresh supply alongside varieties of vegetables for shoppers.
James A. Johnson Dies at 76 in Weston West Virginia
James A Johnson a 76 year old Confederate veteran and Braxton County prominent citizen died this week at a Weston hospital. He was the father of a large family and active in local affairs.
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James A. Johnson
Braxton County
Weston
Recalled Hanging of Lincoln Conspirators Fifty Years Later
Denver reporter Cole recounts the 1865 execution of Mary Surratt and the four co conspirators at Washington Penitentiary. Guard Benjamin Noll describes the scaffold, cries of Mrs Surratt, the hood, the trap, and the solemn hush as the sentences were carried out. He reflects on Lincoln's legacy and the enduring gloom after the assassination.
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Denver
Cole
Lincoln
Old Washington Penitentiary
Benjamin F. Noll
Mary Surratt
Mrs. Surratt
Lewis Payne Powell
David EB. Herrold
George A. Atterott
Battl
Abraham Lincoln
West Virginia builders plan new structures across several cities
Pittsburg July 10 report details new construction plans and bids in West Virginia. Fairmont plans include 100 to 500 frame miners residences with bids around 15. J G Smyth of Watson building designs. Weirton bids awarded for remodeling Simon Brothers store, Nath building. Jrom and Wire Works handles steel. Martinsburg eyes a three story brick 26 by 80 foot store building. architect yet to be chosen. Follantbee bids for two story stucco and shingle residence for J M Banfiella. Peter son and Clark of Steubenville handle plans. Frank Murphy plans eight frame residences about 20,000. Huntington notes a change of architects for the Huntingtor Institutional Baptist church. Lyric building foundation work in Richmond, and Williamstown Episcopal aims for brick and stone church about 12,000 with no architect chosen.
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Pittsburg
West Virginia
Fairmont
Consolidation Coal Company
J. G. Smyth
Watson
Weirton
Peterson and Clark, Nath
Steubenville
A. S. Craig and Company
Folansbee
W. Va
Simon Brothers
Main Street
Wheeling
Architectural Jrom and Wire Works
Martinsburg
Thompson Brothers
Follantbee
J. M. Banfiela
Peterson and
Cowles Retires as Admiral of Asiatic Fleet
In Washington on July 10 Admiral Cowles commanding the Asiatic fleet was retired because of age. Captain A S Fechtler of the Newport naval war college is promoted to rear admiral.
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Franeoan
Washington
Cowles
A. S."fechtler
Newport Naval War College
Former Mayor Will H. Cole Resigns IMs Lodge Secretary Post
Will H. Cole, former mayor and Randolph County businessman, resigns as secretary of the IMs lodge. His successor will be elected at a lodge meeting Tuesday night at o'clock.
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Will H. Cole
Randolph County
Ims
Lodge
Rifle Range Progress At Pettyville Encampment Prep
Rifle range work near Pettyville on the Muncey and Hall farms advances under Capt J Arthur Watson. Six teams and thirty men erect targets and concrete butts. Ground is leveled, ranges marked, and thirty targets set across ten feet each. Completion awaits the encampment.
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Parkersburg
Pettyville
Muncey and Hall Farms
J. Arthur
Watson
Russians Request Four Hour Armistice For Burials
Armistice granted after severe losses on the Bukovina and Dniester fronts. Russians burying dead, artillery from Austro German forces inflicted heavy damage, and Russian troops retreated several miles beyond the river in places along the Dniester.
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Teoreel Czernowitz
London
Buxowina
Dniester
Chicago Proclaims Day of Thanksgiving for Crisis Endurance
Chicago July 10 Mayor Thompson issued a proclamation requesting and recommending that tomorrow be a day of special thanksgiving for our people in token of the industrial crisis Chicago has endured and in courtesy to the Christian Endeavor convention. The mayor urges all religious services include a praise service to God for deliverance from the danger.
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AnsociaTgo Press
Chicago
Thomp~son
Christian Endeavor Convention
Murder confession ties 18 year old to Noblesville axe slaying
Inez Burke eighteen and Frank Taylor seventeen were arrested in Peoria Illinois and Burke allegedly confessed to murdering her mother Mrs Archies McLean in Noblesville Indiana on July 4. She said her mother tried to beat her and she struck with an axe. The pair were held for questioning.
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Cai
Prace Peoria
Ibl
Sui
Inez Burke
Frank Taylor
Archies “McLean
Noblesville
Ind
Patothé
Womran
Wife's will leaves him mother-in-law
New Brunswick New Jersey July 10 John Whiteman inherits a mother-in-law from his wife's will. The document directs him to always provide a home for her mother and specifies that if he fails to comply the mother must bring salt for sixteen years' salary as a domestic.
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New Brunswick
N. J
John Whiteman
Rancher Dow Reports Brutal Treatment by Villa Soldiers
Dow, an American rancher from Senora’s river valley, told reporters in Nogales that Villa soldiers stripped his family of belongings, burned crops, and jailed them after a raid. He and his wife, daughter, and three children were released ten days ago with a warning of possible death if they returned. Dow cites Carranza leadership and connects to a relative of General Obregon. Waldo Sheldon and two Yaqui-area ranchers corroborated reports of foreign forces deploying adobe forts to deter Yaqui attacks.
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Jay
Runyet Nogales
Ariz
Frea Dow
Mayor Rivers Valley
Senora
Villa
Dow
Raymont Saldido
Alvaro Obregon
Carranza
Waldo Sheldon
Yaqui
Tornado Strikes Central Illinois Causing Severe Damage
A July 10 tornado ripped through central Illinois, damaging buildings and cropland. Farmer Leonard Provost was struck by a falling tree and badly hurt. Oats were flattened and fruit trees ruined. Bloomington also suffered a severe electric storm with cloudburst rainfall.
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Way Associates Preest Mascatur
Illinois
Leonard Provost
Bloomington
Relic Killed Laramie Liberty Bell Kiss of Reverence
An elderly Grand Army of the Republic veteran with Revolutionary War ancestry climbed to the Liberty Bell platform in Laramie Wyoming and, kneeling, kissed the relic as a vast crowd looked on. The scene occurred at night during the bell’s arrival amid cheers from thousands.
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Grand Army of Republic
Laramie
Wyo
Grand Army Republic
West Virginia Pan American Exposition meeting canceled
One day honors Parkerburg as the West Virginia Pan American-Pacific exposition commission held no meeting this week due to lack of a quorum. Only Colonel Fred Pau Grouseup of Charleton and M. Re Eowther of this party attended. Colonel E M McGraw G O Nagte and W F Hite were absent. The event planned to select the most distinguished man to visit West Virginia was postponed.
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Parkersburg
West Virginia
Nera
Coronel
Fred Pau Grouseup
Charleaton
Eowther
Obn“E.mcgraw
Nagte
WF. Hite
Suit filed by Birmingham ex manager against Somers
Joseph Birmingham former manager of the Cleveland American League team filed suit in common pleas court seeking 20008 dollars in salary and damages after Charles W. Somers owner discharged him and refused him a share of the club. Birmingham contends the contract covered 1905 and 1916 at 6000 dollars yearly with 1600 dollars for an option of services and no day clauses. He claims he was paid through June 1915 and cites iron clad contract disputes amid shifts to the Federal League.
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Cleveland
Joseph Ae Birmingham
Cleveland American League Baseball
Hera
Charles W. Somers
Ins Team
Somer
The
Birmingham
Stim Federal League
Judge Waldo Dies in Kansas City at 71
Kansas City July 10. H J Waldg former federal judge of the New Mexico district died here aged 71. He practiced law in Santa Fe New Mexico, at various times with B Catron, United.
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Kansas City
H. J. Waldg
New Mexico
Santa Fe
N. M
B. Catron
United
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